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O-bok is a 61-year-old woman and has been running a seafood store in a fish market for decades. One day, O-bok has her first meeting with her daughter In-ae’s future parents-in-law. That night, she gets raped by Gi-taek. O-bok at first pretends that nothing happened and tries to go about her life as usual. A while later, she tells In-ae about the rape. The police calls in Gi-taek to investigate, and the story of the incident begins to spread around the market.

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Diego Semerene Slant Magazine 05/02/2021
The film explores what erupts when women decide to walk away from their passive positions and speak up through more fictitious and allegorical means. Go to Full Review Christopher Bourne In Review Online 09/26/2021
Gull may be a slight 75 minutes in length, but it packs quite a powerful punch across this brief runtime. Go to Full Review Jaime Pena Caimán Cuadernos de Cine 08/11/2021
Gull unravels the moral conflict without falling into Manichaeism at any time, knowing how to end just at the moment that the most demagogic filmmakers would begin their films. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Glenn Heath Jr. The Film Stage 05/14/2021
A-
Jeong's boiling performance is never less than riveting, and a fittingly blunt response to the slippery chauvinism that continues to prop up the worst men as model citizens. Go to Full Review Jennie Kermode Eye for Film 11/13/2020
3.5/5
Though a little overdone in places, Gull is an important contribution to contemporary Korean cinema and makes its points well. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Mi-jo Kim

Director

Ae-Hwa Jeong

O-bok

Kim Byung-Choon

Actor

Ko Seo-hee

O-bok's daughter

Lee Jang-yoo

Gi-taek

Mi-jo Kim

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Synopsis O-bok is a 61-year-old woman and has been running a seafood store in a fish market for decades. One day, O-bok has her first meeting with her daughter In-ae’s future parents-in-law. That night, she gets raped by Gi-taek. O-bok at first pretends that nothing happened and tries to go about her life as usual. A while later, she tells In-ae about the rape. The police calls in Gi-taek to investigate, and the story of the incident begins to spread around the market.
Director
Mi-jo Kim
Screenwriter
Mi-jo Kim
Original Language
Korean
Runtime
1h 15m